Description

This master's program enables teaching secondary education, vocational training, languages, arts, and sports as it is a specific requirement for entry into the teaching corps of secondary schools, vocational training, music and performing arts, plastic arts and design, workshop masters of fine arts and design, and teachers at official language schools.

Career opportunities

Regulated profession: Yes

Doctorates providing access:

This master's has a clear professional profile, intended for training future teachers. It prepares them to be educators at public, state-assisted, and private schools, occupying positions both teaching and mentoring students as well as in managerial and administrative posts. Special emphasis is placed on being able to competently meet the various educational needs resulting from the diversity of students present in today's classrooms. The decrees regulating this master's are:

- RESOLUTION of 17 December 2007 (BOE 305, 21-12-2007), establishing the conditions that curricula leading to degrees that entitle practicing the regulated professions of Secondary Education Teacher, Vocational Training, and Language Teaching Teachers must adapt to.- ORDER ECI/3858/2007, establishing the requirements for the verification of official university degrees that entitle practicing the profession of Secondary Education Teacher, Vocational Training, and Language Instruction. - ORDER EDU/3498/2011, amending Order ECI/3858/2007.

Curriculum

ECTS credits: 60

Core

Required

Electives

External internships

Final Master's Project

0

30

12

12

6

ECTS credits

Design

Incoming students to this master's program must enroll in at least 12 ECTS credits. To be conferred this degree, earning 60 ECTS credits is required. These are distributed among required course credits (30), elective credits (12), work placement/internship credits (12), and the Final Master's Project (6), taken in the following courses:

- The 30 required ECTS credits are part of 4 courses included in the Generic Module (18 ECTS credits) and 2 courses from the Specific Module included in the Innovative Teaching and Introduction to Educational Research and Attention to Students with Special Educational Needs subject matter (12 ECTS credits).- The 12 ECTS elective credits are from the Specific Module courses included in the Teaching and Approach to the Curriculum from the specialty being studied in the master's.- The 12 ECTS work placement/internship credits are from the Practicum I and Practicum II courses. - The 6 ECTS Final Master's Project credits are earned in the course bearing the same name.The student guide summarizes the fundamental aspects of this master's program. For consultation, see the following link: http://masterprofumh.es/futuro-estudiante/guia-de-acceso/

Competencies

General competencies

Know the curriculum content of the matters relating to the appropriate teaching specialization, and the body of didactic knowledge about the teaching and learning. The knowledge of the respective professions will be included for the professional training.

Plan, develop, and evaluate the teaching and learning process, enhancing educational processes that facilitate attaining the skills of the respective education, based on the students' previous levels and training, and guiding them both individually and collectively with other center teachers and school professionals.

Search for, obtain, process, and communicate information (oral, print, audiovisual, digital, or multimedia), transform it into knowledge, and apply it in the teaching and learning processes in the specialization's subject matter.

Define the curriculum to be implemented at an educational center through participation in its collective planning; develop and apply group and individual teaching methodologies adapted to the diversity of its students.

Design and develop learning spaces with special reference to equity, emotional education and values, equal rights and opportunities for men and women, civic education and respect for human rights that facilitate life in society, decision making and building a sustainable future.

Acquire strategies to encourage student effort and promote their ability to learn by themselves and with others, and develop thinking and decision-making skills to facilitate autonomy and instill confidence and personal initiative.

Understand the processes of interaction and communication in the classroom, master social skills and abilities necessary for stimulating learning and coexistence in the classroom, and address discipline problems and conflict resolution.

For students of the educational guidance specialty, understand the psychopedagogical characteristics of students in order to be able to evaluate them and issue the required reports.

For students in the educational guidance specialty, understand the measures of attention to diversity that can be adopted in order to provide the necessary guidance in each case.

For students of the educational guidance specialty, analyze the organization and operations of the center in order to coordinate the personal, academic, and professional orientation of the student body in collaboration with members of the school community.

For students of the educational guidance specialty, develop the necessary skills and techniques in order to be able to properly advise families about the development and learning process of their children.

For students of the educational guidance specialty, identify the public services and community organizations with which the center can collaborate. Moreover, promote and plan, along with the management team, the necessary actions to better serve the student body.

Design and organize formal and informal activities that increase the participation and culture in the educational center; perform the functions of mentoring and guiding students in a collaborative and coordinated manner; participate in the evaluation, research and innovation in teaching and learning.

Understand regulations and institutional organization of the education system and quality improvement models with applications at educational centers.

Understand and analyze the historical characteristics of the teaching profession, its current situation, perspectives and interaction with the social realities of each era.

Inform and advise families about the teaching and learning process, and about personal, academic, and professional orientation of their children.

Specific competencies

Understand the characteristics of students, their social contexts, and motivations.

Understand the personality development of students and possible dysfunctions that affect learning.

Develop proposals based on the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and intellectual and emotional abilities.

Identify and plan the resolution of educational situations involving students with different abilities and who learn at different rates.

Understand the processes of interaction and communication in the classroom and in the center, and address and resolve potential problems.

Understand the historical evolution of the educational system in our country.

Know and apply information resources and strategies, mentoring, and academic and professional guidance.

Promote emotional education actions, values, and citizen training.

Participate in defining the educational project and the general activities at the center according to criteria of quality improvement, attention to diversity, prevention of learning problems, and coexistence.

Relate education to the environment and understand the educational role of the family and community, in both the acquisition of skills and learning as well as education based on rights and freedoms, on equal rights and opportunities for men and women, and equal treatment and non-discrimination of persons with disabilities.

Understand the historical evolution of the family, its various types, and the impact of family background on education.

Acquire social skills on family relationships and family counseling.

Understand the educational and cultural value of the material that corresponds to the specialization and contents that are taught in the respective education.

Know the history and recent developments of the subject matter and its perspectives to convey a dynamic view.

Understand contexts and situations wherein diverse curricular contents are used or applied.

Understand workplace changes, the interaction between society, work, and the quality of life, as well as the need to acquire proper training to adapt to changes and transformations that professions may require.

Know the processes and resources for preventing learning and coexistence problems, and the processes of assessment and academic and professional guidance.

Understand the theoretical and practical developments of teaching and learning of the relevant materials.

Transform curricula in activity and work programs.

Acquire criteria for selecting and developing educational materials.

Foster a climate that facilitates learning and places value on the contributions of students.

Integrate training in audiovisual and multimedia communication in the teaching-learning process.

Learn assessment strategies and techniques and understand the assessment as a tool to regulate and encourage effort.

Know and apply innovative teaching proposals in the area of the specialization taught.

Critically analyze the performance of teaching, good practices, and orientation using quality indicators.

Identify problems related to the teaching and learning of specialty's subject matter and propose alternatives and solutions.

Know and apply basic research and educational assessment methodologies and techniques and be able to design and carry out research, innovation, and assessment projects.

Master the social skills and abilities necessary for fostering a climate that facilitates learning and coexistence.

Participate in improvement proposals in different fields of action from reflection based on practice.

In the case of vocational training, know business typology corresponding to business sectors and understand common organizational systems in enterprises.

Final Master's Project

Access and Admissions

Access

For access to this master's program, applicants must hold either an official Spanish university degree or one conferred by a higher education institution in a country belonging to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) that entitles access to master's education in such country.

Access may also be granted to those possessing a degree from an educational system outside the EHEA, without requiring its homologation, but following verification by the UMH that the degree represents an educational level that is equivalent to the corresponding official Spanish university degree and that it entitles access to graduate education within the issuing country.

Access this way does not mean, under any circumstance, homologation of the degree the interested party holds, or its recognition for anything besides acceptance into a master's program.

In addition to the general access requirements for this master's, the following language requirement also applies:

- Spanish nationals or Spanish-speaking foreign nationals must demonstrate mastery of a foreign language at a B1 level, as required by the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages in accordance with Recommendation No. R (98) 6 by the Committee of Ministers to Member States dated 17 October 2000, via one of the routes described in the Master's Teaching Website. - Non-Spanish speaking foreign nationals must demonstrate mastery of the Spanish language by taking an examination that measures their oral and written Spanish levels in order to certify they possess the capabilities necessary for taking the master's program and are capable of performing teaching tasks at a secondary school in Spain.

Admissions

The selection criteria considered in the admissions process include the applicant's academic record and/or the number of positions available per campus and/or specialty. The assessment is conducted by the Student Admission Committee, formed by the program coordinator, its deputy coordinator, a program administrator, and failing this, by a technician from the Service of Academic Management.

The professional nature of this master's program requires a connection between the degree held by the prospective student that allows access to it and the specialty chosen to pursue in the program. The specialties offered can be consulted in the following list:

Direct access to the specialty chosenThe actual degrees that correspond to the distinct master's specializations and, therefore, provide direct access to them can be found in the following link http://goo.gl/KlXSKM (this list indicates only direct access to specific specialties and in no case is exclusive).

Access to the specialty with a level testIndividuals holding one of the degrees listed in the previous document or any other not listed therein and who seek admission to this master's program in a specialty different from those that provide direct access must take a specific supplementary examination to determine whether they possess the necessary curricular knowledge. This examination for each specialty aims to determine whether the student, who does not possess a university degree that corresponds to the chosen specialty, has the competencies related to the specialty they want to pursue. This test will be prepared by the professors coordinating each master's specialty and approved by the Committee on Admission of Students. The date of the test will be made known to the interested parties and take place during the first half of October.

In any case, the master's Committee on Admission of Students will be responsible for determining the suitability of the degree submitted by the student for the specialty chosen and the final assignment.

Links of interest of the master

Schedule

FALL SEMESTER (October to January)- Elche morning group: classes are held four days a week (Monday to Friday) from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.- Remaining groups: classes are held four days a week (Monday to Friday) from 3:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.

- Fall semester seminars are held on Monday afternoons (for both the Elche morning group as well as the others) from 4 - 7 p.m. There are 10 seminars planned for this semester; of these, 4 are held on all campuses, while the remaining 6 are only held on the Elche Campus.

SPRING SEMESTER PART 1 (January to April)- Specialty courses (all specialties): the schedule is determined by the instructor responsible for each corresponding specialty. Structure: 10 sessions, of which only two of them are attended, each lasting about 3 hours (the first and last one) on the Elche Campus (except for the Plastic and Visual Education specialty, held in Altea); the remaining 8 sessions are recorded live and may be seen via videoconferencing at a later time.

*Spring semester seminars: All seminars are held on the Elche Campus except for those corresponding to Plastic and Visual Education (Altea Campus), or those so determined by the instructor responsible for the specialty.

Note: External internships must be take place at recognized centers within the Province of Alicante that are assigned to the UMH.

- Practicum I: Internships at centers recognized by the Generalitat Valenciana. The schedule at the secondary school is made known when the student reports at it to carry out their internship.Completion of 120 internship hours at public secondary schools (a minimum of 100 hours to pass this course). Such schools may be located in Elche and its surroundings, the Vega Baja del Segura, and the entire coast of the Province of Alicante, except for the city of Alicante and San Juan Beach.

SPRING SEMESTER PART 2 (April to May)- Final Master's Project: Each UMH tutor/mentor arranges, along with their student(s), to monitor this course either via face-to-face or online tutorials, with resolution of doubts via email. (In order to defend the Final Master's Project, the student must have completed 75% of the program's total credits, i.e., 45 credits.)

To follow the program, regularly visit the academic year webpage to gain access to all the resources for each course in the program.

The schedule for Spring Semester courses and seminars are listed in Horarios, which can be consulted by clicking on any particular course or similar that appears within it.

To consult all program activities, consult Agenda. This appears on the right-hand side of every page on the teaching platform. This also displays times for seminars, online courses, calls for online examinations, in addition to calls for examinations.